Democracy Remixed Black Youth and the Future of American Politics

Name: Democracy Remixed Black Youth and the Future of American Politics
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ISBN: 9780195378009

ISBN-10: 0195378008

ISBN-13: 9780195378009

Edition: 2010

Authors: Cathy J. Cohen

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Since at least the 1960s, the impact of black youth on American politics has been dramatically disproportionate to its small population size and lack of electoral clout. Their influence likes in their undeserved status as the stand-in image for the larger pathologies of American culture and society: teenage pregnancy, street crime, the crack epidemic, the urban crisis, and "gangsta" culture, to name a few. That image has been central to some of the bitterest battles between leftand right in recent times. They have factored heavily in contests over welfare policy, affirmative action, busing, the culture wars, and the fallout from the social turmoil of the 1960s. And despite whatever racial…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




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"Baby Mama": Black Love, Black Deviance, and the Sexual Politics of Morality



"Minority Report": Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Political Alienation




"Fight the Power": From Jena to the White House



"My President Is Black": Barack Obama and the Postracial Illusion


"A Change Is Gonna Come": Policy and Politics





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